Dr. Robert Galvin

Dr. Robert Galvin

Chief Executive Officer
Equity Healthcare

Dr. Robert Galvin is the Chief Executive Officer of Equity Healthcare (EH) and an Operating Partner at Blackstone.

Before joining Blackstone, Dr. Galvin was Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer for General Electric (GE) for fifteen years, where he was in charge of the design and financial and clinical performance of GE’s health programs. He was also responsible for health policy strategies affecting employees. Dr. Galvin is a nationally recognized leader in the areas of market-based health policy and financing, quality measurement, and payment reform. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. He is a co-founder of the Leapfrog Group and founder of two other groups, Bridges to Excellence and Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), all innovative non-profits that have helped drive the quality agenda.

Dr. Galvin is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the boards of Real Endpoints and CPR, where he is Chairman. Dr. Galvin is Professor Adjunct of Medicine and Health Policy at Yale. His work has received awards from the National Business Group on Health, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.